Every quote, priced from real costs.

The unit-economics workspace for manufacturers. InstantQuote measures what every part really costs to make and deliver, from the records you already keep, and keeps every price current as costs move.

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Example · 2-in. three-piece ball valve A week later · new castings invoice

Down to the bolt. Then the time it takes. What it actually costs. And it keeps up.

Every part priced from the line you actually paid on the supplier invoice. Machine and labor minutes measured on the floor. Overhead from your books, marked as an estimate. It sells for $148.00 and leaves $35.12 a valve. Castings came in 6% higher. The valve now leaves $32.96, under your $34 target.

What one valve costs to make and deliver, line by line
ItemLineSourcePer valve
01 4 bolts + 4 nuts$0.38 a bolt Supplier invoice $1.88
02 Handle + grip Supplier invoice $3.20
03 Body + 2 end capsCF8M+6% Supplier invoice $36.00$38.16
04 Seats + packingPTFE Supplier invoice $3.25
05 Ball + stem316 stainless Supplier invoice $10.00
A Machining22 min at $84/hr Floor timer $30.80
B Assembly + test9 min Floor timer $5.70
C Freight in + packaging Invoices $4.00
D Overhead sharerent, power P&L estimate $11.20±1.40
E Carrier add-ons you don’t bill Carrier bills $6.85
Running total One valve, delivered ±1.40$112.88

Measured from your documents Estimated from your P&L A leak

To sharpen it next: how floor space splits between machining and assembly. One question to the plant manager.

Two open quotes on this valve now fall under target. Both are flagged before they go out.

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Platform

Four engines. One data layer.

We start with your documents and measure what every unit makes. Each engine puts those numbers to work. Start with the one that hurts most, and add the rest when you’re ready.

Purchasing passes real costs to Margin. Margin passes unit economics to Quote. Quote passes accepted orders to Operations. Operations sends reorders back to Purchasing. All four share one data layer.

Purchasing Engine

IQ-02

Every cost coming in

Every supplier price sheet read and compared, and every invoice checked before it’s paid.

Margin Engine

IQ-04

What actually makes money

What every unit really makes, measured from your records, and where the money is going.

Quote Engine

IQ-01

Every price that goes out

Requests read, every line priced from live cost and your rules, and a portal for customers.

Operations Engine

IQ-03

What you hold, make and move

Live stock by lot and cost, ship dates from the floor, and reorders sized from real usage.

One data layer

Your catalog, customers, suppliers, costs and history

Fig. 2The valve above, end to end: Purchasing read the new castings invoice, Margin recosted the valve, and Quote flagged the two open quotes before they went out.

Where it works

From the mill to the dry dock.

Every plant has its own unit: a pound of coil, a stamped part, an hour on the hull. InstantQuote measures yours, keeps it current, and checks every price against it.

Red-hot steel slabs moving down a continuous casting line

TodayNew invoice

304 coil $1.42 → $1.48/lb

  • 18 products repriced from the new cost
  • 2 open quotes now under margin

01Metals

When the mill price moves, your price list moves with it.

Service centers, foundries and fabricators buy against an index and sell off a price list that’s out of date the day it’s printed. InstantQuote ties every product’s cost to what you actually paid per pound, updates it when a new invoice lands, and shows which prices and open quotes slipped under your margin.

  • Cost per pound, coil and cut
  • Surcharges and freight on every order
  • Price lists that follow the index
Robotic welding cells on a car assembly line

Part 44-118Bracket · Line 3

Cost $3.42 at $3.64 after the price-down

  • Margin 6.0% against an 8% target
  • Flagged before the renewal is signed

02Automotive

Know which parts still pay after the price‑down.

Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers live with yearly price-downs, steel surcharges and long-term agreements. InstantQuote costs every part on the line it actually runs on, setup and scrap included, so you can see which part numbers lose money before you sign the next one.

  • Cost per part, per line, per shift
  • Setup, scrap and changeovers by part
  • Margin by customer and part number
Shipyard workers inspecting a ship's hull and propellers in dry dock

Block 12Week 9 of 14

1,240 of 1,100 labor hours +12.7%

  • $18,400 over the bid on this block
  • Change order ready to price

03Shipbuilding

Catch the overrun while the hull is still in the dock.

Yards and marine fabricators bid fixed prices on builds that run for months. InstantQuote tracks labor hours and material against each block as the work goes, so an overrun shows up while there’s still time to price the change order.

  • Cost per hull block and labor hour
  • Material escalation by block
  • Change orders priced from real cost

Measured on site

Measured in the building.

Precious metals manufacturer

$25M a year · Manufacturing

In deployment

Quotes that took up to two hours by hand, priced in seconds.

Up to 2 hrs
To produce one quote by hand
150 hrs
A month quoting, per salesperson
5 yrs
For a new rep to price like a veteran

D01 · Quote Engine · On-site discovery, August to September 2026.

Wholesale produce distributor

Distribution · Produce

Discovery

Price sheets from markets, ports, border crossings and growers, compared by hand every week.

80
Price sheets a week
4
Kinds of source
Any
Format: PDF, email, scan, photo

P01 · Purchasing Engine · Sample price sheets and weekly intake, August 2026.

Figures as reported by each team during discovery. Client names withheld.

How it runs

Moves when your costs do.

The people who price, buy and run the floor open it the way they open their inbox.

  1. Every invoice

    Supplier, freight and payroll files update what each unit costs the day they arrive. Nothing to rebuild.

  2. Every quote

    Check a price against true cost and your margin target before it goes out.

  3. Every week

    A short note on what moved, which parts and customers slipped, and the one question that would sharpen a number.

  4. Every month

    When the books close, everything recomputes and the review is drafted, with a source on every figure.

Weekly noteWeek of Oct 19

What moved

  • Castings up 6% on the Oct 21 invoice14 parts under target
  • Freight add-ons not billed$2,140 on 31 orders
  • Machining on Line 2, measured this week−$0.40 a part

Quotes to check

  • Q-2291 400 × 2-in. valve at $148.00Under target
  • Q-2296 120 × 3-in. valve at $212.00Clears target

One question

How does floor space split between machining and assembly?

Sent to the plant manager · narrows the overhead share from ±$1.40 to ±$0.40

Setup

Set up beside the way you work now.

  1. 01

    Discovery, on your documents

    We read the records you already keep and show what each unit really makes.

  2. 02

    Built on your data

    The first engine, on your catalog, suppliers and rules. Your suppliers and customers change nothing.

  3. 03

    Run side by side

    It runs beside your current process until the numbers match.

  • Your data stays yours. Never shared, never used to price for anyone else.
  • Connects to what you run. Works with your ERP, accounting system and CRM, not instead of them.
  • Roles and permissions. Costs and margins visible only to the roles you choose.
  • Every change logged. Who, when and why, on every price, override and approval.

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